| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24495 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24495 |
| Women, Rails and Telegraphs: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion and Collective Action | |
| Camilo García-Jimeno; Angel Iglesias; Pinar Yildirim | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-04-09 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | How do social interactions shape collective action, and how are they mediated by the availability of networked information technologies? To answer these questions, we study the Temperance Crusade, one of the earliest instances of organized political mobilization by women in the U.S. This wave of protest activity against liquor dealers spread between the winter of 1873 and the summer of 1874, covering more than 800 towns in 29 states. We first provide causal evidence of social interactions driving the diffusion of the protest wave, and estimate the roles played by information traveling along railroad and telegraph networks. We do this by relying on exogenous variation in the rail network links generated by railroad worker strikes and railroad accidents. We also develop an event-study methodology to estimate the complementarity between rail and telegraph networks in driving the spread of the Crusade. We find that railroad and telegraph-mediated information about neighboring protest activity were main drivers of the diffusion of the protest movement. We also find strong complementarities between both networks. Using variation in the types of protest activities of neighboring towns and in the aggregate patterns of the diffusion process, we also find suggestive evidence of social learning as a key mechanism behind the effect of information on protest adoption. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Economics of Information ; History ; Macroeconomic History ; Labor and Health History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Other ; Culture |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24495 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582169 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Camilo García-Jimeno,Angel Iglesias,Pinar Yildirim. Women, Rails and Telegraphs: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion and Collective Action. 2018. |
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